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Part consoling sourcebook, part cultural commentary, and part wry self-help manual, this gloriously un-cynical handbook provides advice for creatives struggling in a career world awash in bottom-line thinking. Readers will enjoy the comical aspects such as e-mails from the literary agent of Henry David Thoreau to the helpful tips like the 5-point productivity plan for writers. From humor pieces, to essays, to quotes, this inspirational anthology is packed with insights that will appeal to all creatives.

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[The Honorable Obscurity Handbook] speaks to and encourages the nurturing and gnawing heart of the creative spirit within us before the disparaging and capitalistic forces of our daily lives censor it mute. The Corvallis Advocate

[The Honorable Obscurity Handbook] speaks to and encourages the nurturing and gnawing heart of the creative spirit within us before the disparaging and capitalistic forces of our daily lives censor it mute. The Corvallis Advocate Ingenious, variegated, touching, important, wholly absorbing, inspiring and inspiriting. Cynthia Ozick, author, Heir to the Glimmering World Ingenious, variegated, touching, important, wholly absorbing, inspiring and inspiriting. --Cynthia Ozick, author, Heir to the Glimmering World [The Honorable Obscurity Handbook] speaks to and encourages the nurturing and gnawing heart of the creative spirit within us before the disparaging and capitalistic forces of our daily lives censor it mute. --The Corvallis Advocate

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M. Allen Cunningham is the cofounder of the cultural commentary blog SoulShelter.com. His stories have appeared in many literary magazines including Glimmer Train and The Kenyon Review and have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is the author of Date of Disappearance, The Flickering Page, The Green Age of Asher Witherow, Lost Son, and Partisans. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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